Articles Tagged 'Edge'

For over 30 years, Heartlight has shared articles to help people live for Jesus in everyday life. While we are no longer publishing new articles, this enduring collection features relevant pieces throughout the year to encourage faith, offer biblical perspective, and speak to real-world joys and struggles.

Teach Me to Number My Days!

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in a virtual, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to call us to recognize God's greatness and our need to obey him if we want to gain a heart of wisdom.

The New Year is our opportunity to seek after God's ways in our lives and find the wisdom to live for him in our challenging times.

Who Pilots My Life?

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in a virtual, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to open our hearts to ask God to guide us and lead us in all our ways so that our paths are the ones he would have us choose.

We must seek God's way, follow God's will, and trust him if our paths are going to lead us where we need to go.

Let Love Lead the Way

Melissa Troyer reminds us that the only way out of the mess we now find ourselves in is to start our own movement of grace.

We all need to spend days in a rock tumbler, thrown and tossed against other hard objects till our broken edges are softened and our hearts are reawakened.

The Most Excellent Way

Phil Ware continues his series on how God values women and how precious they are to Him, His people, and the future of humankind, this week focusing on sexual intimacy and value.

Beyond sexual equality to the Jesus way of mutuality and sacrificial love.

Good Morning

Rubel Shelly reminds us of the dangers of isolating or cocooning ourselves against the world to the point we are fearful and withdrawn and lose contact with real people in real life.

So what makes us avoid each other?

Who Can We Trust?

Tom Norvell shares with us insight into our skepticism and why we find it so hard to trust anyone.

In a world of deception, spin, and verbal hedging, is there anyone we can trust?

The Swirly Cycle of Destruction

Phil Ware continues his journey through The Story focusing this week on the Judges, especially the cycle of destruction that was leading them to catastrophe and the ways we can escape the cycle.

Which way does your toilet flush?

Is Praying it Safe Best?

Shana Schutte, author and speaker, challenges us to move away from pray it safe prayers to prayer that challenges us to live on the edge of faith and adventure.

Are our prayers too guarded and not adventurous enough?

Communifaking

Bill Denton introduces us to a new word, communifaking, and also challenges us to communicate truthfully.

Are you telling it straight with God, or bending the truth a little?

Life on Edge

Living life on edge—that is, under constant pressure, fear, or nervousness—is no way of living. I’m talking about anxiety,

When is anxiety helpful?

Understanding What Is Really Important

We can search Google and the Internet for all sorts of things, but the truth is going to be found in Jesus and His Word.

Beyond Google to God?

Wisdom and Consequences

Our descisions have consequences and these choices are not inconsequential to our children and grandchildren.

Why do we fool ourselves into thinking our actions and choices don't matter that much?

People of Truth

Real knowledge is experiential knowledge: knowledge we've gained by acting on the truth.

Do you really KNOW the truth?

Destiny

God has a plan for each of us, a destiny, to use us for his glory.

What is your destiny?